The Witcher 2 Cost $10,36 Million - The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk Will Cost $2,82 Million In H1 2013

DSOGaming writes: "Polish gaming website, Gazeta Prawna, has revealed some interesting information about the development cost of The Witcher 2, as well as the development for both The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077."

"What’s also great here is that CDPR has achieved financial independence. According to Kicinski, the company has $8,32 million which allows financial independence."

That's quite amazing honestly. With the high cost of games these days, coupled with how much effort and detail is put into their games, having $8 million (in cash? funds?) is pretty amazing.

According to VGChartz, The Witcher 2 has sold roughly 1.5 million copies, so if that is anything to go by, The Witcher 3 should easily sell at least 2.5-3.0 million copies since it will be coming to PC and Next-Gen consoles. Even if they only sell 2.5 million copies, at (hopefully) $30/copy, that's $75 million...

Yea this game was pirated real badly. I think it was around 5 million illegal downloads. Damn shame seeing as how they could have made more money. Hopefully the witcher 3 helps boost them even higher in the gaming market.

I know some casual type of gamers and none of them ever heard of The Witcher. This game will do well but not as well as Skyrim. Those who have heard of it are mostly PC gamers and on consoles it is not well known

Wow, I was expecting their development cost being a lot more, at least 3 times more than that. Impressive for how low the development cost is and how amazing the quality of the game is, from the artwork, soundtrack, gameplay and visuals.

Well the game is developed in Poland, when you factor in salaries 3d modelers, programmers etc. get it's not the same as a game developed in North America for example. I've come across artists from China and Russia that are far cheaper in doing amazing concept art versus artists living in North America. That's why you'll see some amazing looking games with a lower budget.

its good to know that aa games like this are still within the range of 10 to 20 mill to create....was surprised to find out that the first gears of war cost just 10mil dollars to make.im really looking forward to the games of this gen especially since ms is budgeting 1bil for games development alone...from all they've announced so far may be they have spent just less than 200mil dollars.

With how expensive game creation is these days, being able to budget a triple-A game like one of CD Projekt Red's is quite an accomplishment. It means the company is using their resources to their fullest extent and not wasting money on trivial expenditures. I'm betting, for example, that budgeting for marketing isn't as much as for other games, since CD Projekt Red gets a lot of use from social networking and word of mouth, which are more effective for gaming than any other medium. This is VERY smart.

And for the record, Cyberpunk is possibly my most awaited game EVER. I'm a HUGE fan of the Cyberpunk tabletop RPG. When I heard CDPR was making a cyberpunk(lower case) game, I got excited. When I found out it was a Cyberpunk(capitalized) game, I almost lost my shit.